The name Jehovah and its theophoric names.

Jehovah God in his great wisdom foreknew that Satan will try to remove God's divine name from God's Word. So Jehovah preserved his name in the names of his faithful Israelite worshippers. These names are called theophoric (god-bearing) names.

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[pluckyfella7]

@LWservantofYAH Bloody hell! Is anything you say TRUE?! Again, you've misinterpreted this W/T article: it’s NOT saying that “God’s Son’s name is not ‘Jesus’”; it is simply saying that English was not spoken in Jesus’ day, so people did not call him by the ENGLISH name “Jesus”. Instead, “Jesus” was known by Hebrews as Yeho·shu׳a‛ or Ye·shu׳a‛, by Greeks ’Ιησοΰς, and possibly by Latin speakers: Iesus. You yourself said it that ‘The [English] name Jehovah didn't even exist in the 1st century’.

[pluckyfella7]

@LWservantofYAH In Ezra, only Ezra 4:8 to 6:18 and 7:12-26 is written in Aramaic; the rest is in Hebrew. Please compare “Jeshua” in Ezra 2:2 in Hebrew with “Jeshua” in Ezra 5:2 in Aramaic; they are both IDENTICAL: Ye·shu׳a‛. Thus, you are badly mistaken that ‘Ye·shu׳a‛ is somehow Aramaic for Hebrew Yah·shu׳a‛ ’! Je·shua is short for Jeho·shua, which in Hebrew is Yeho·shu׳a‛ i.e. Yehowah‛·shu׳a‛. You've wrongly called me a liar several times because you are IN DENIAL, unable to disprove my words.

[pluckyfella7]

Actually, JWs don’t use Hallelujah, but correctly translate Ha·lelu·YAH׳ / hallelouIA (‛αλληλούια) as “Praise Jah”—see Psalm 104:35c and Rev.19:1 NWT. Some Bibles DO have Hallelujah! (Rev.19:1: Moffat, NIV, NASB et al) so I'm simply pointing out to those viewers with Hallelujah! in their Bibles that this means “Praise Jah!”.

[pluckyfella7]

In Ha·lelu·YAH׳, the a in _YAH׳ is a QA׳METS a—a Perfect vowel with the ultimate accent. But the a in YAHweh is a Pa׳thach a—an Imperfect vowel; the ultimate accent reverses the STATE of the last vowel (in this case: Imperfect to Perfect) :you simply cannot have an ACCENTED Imperfect vowel in this last, closed syllable i.e. a Pa׳thach in _YAH׳ ;so this a cannot be the Pa׳thach of YAHweh. Therefore, the _YAH׳ in Ha·lelu·YAH׳ cannot be from YAHweh. Only YehowAH׳ has the Qa׳mets a of Ha·lelu·YAH׳ .

[pluckyfella7]

It is said that Yehowah comes from YHWH + the vowels of ’adhonay (YaHo·WaH). Yehowah also comes from the root howah, a singular Qal Active participle of hawah, with the Imperfect 3ms Hiph‛il Stem : Yah · o· wah, whereby the Pathach a is shortened to a Shewa’ e as a half-vowel / full vowel syllable: Yeho·wah aka Jehovah. In English, this Yah·o·wah LOOKS identical to YaHo·WaH, but in Hebrew, the first vowel & the syllables are different. Note the middle dots.

[joeythebushkangaroo1]

I understand that Biblical names with EL in them are not Theophoric names,but found it very interesting that so many names are derived from Jehovah,Jah and also his positions of "God" and even "Father".Look in the Insight books at names starting with "AB" which stands for Father.

It is all very interesting and a great subject to do some research on--even for children.

Even in the English language,most names,if not all, starting with "JO" are from Jehovah's name originally.Regards Joanne.

[pluckyfella7]

Hi Joanne. Thanks for this interesting research; you have good insight! I like that. In a sense, Joanne comes from יְהוֹחָנָן Yeho·cha·nan׳ (Jehohanan—1Ch 26:3), sometimes contracted to Yo·cha·nan » ’Ιωάννης ’Ioannes= John and Joan, so your name means “Jehovah Has Shown Favour”. Elijah has BOTH ’El and Yah: ’El·i·yah׳ and ’E·li·ya׳hu (2Ki 1:3,13). _IAH is Anglo-Latin for Yah. Joshua and Jeshua both come from Yeho·shu׳a‛ (J[eh]OSHUA / JE[ho]SHUA). Interesting, huh?!. Warm Christian love. Andrew.

[Amidsthespires]

When you consider that Satan's name has been obliterated by Jehovah and we know this rebellious angel only by the titles of Devil (means 'Slanderer') and Satan (means 'Resister'), we can understand his evil intent to remove God's name from the lips of all mankind.

[wslancesandy]

Andrew, I just came across this in suggested video's. Such a splendid praise to Jehovah! Thank you for all your hard work in producing this and all the research that went into it. Praise Jah or Hallelu Jah indeed! the term one brother on the comments said. Hallelujah! a praise to Jehovah in Hebrew.

[lumieres8]

@pluckyfella7 Hello Brother !!! thank-you for your wise answer !! in french we don't use Jah but Yah !!! I can't understand these peoples speaking about words !! God know the heart no matter if we call him Yahweh yahvé or Jéhovah ...

[joeythebushkangaroo1]

Hi there, I also found that Bible names ending in "IAH" contain Jehovah's name in the meaning too.

such as Isaiah, Obadiah,Nehemiah,Zedekiah,Zeph­aniah,Jeremiah,Tobiah,etc

Also names that begin or end with "EL" have the word God in them.

such as Joel,Ezekiel,Michael,Nathanael­,Eleazar,Eliakim,Eldad,Elasah,­Elisha,Elimelech,etc,

Also names that start with "JO" have Jehovah's name in them too.

such as Joel, Joab,Joah,Joikim,Joha,Joshua,J­osiah,Joses,Jotham,etc

These above are just a few of them all.

[pluckyfella7]

@LWservantofYAH No. I am not a liar. You are so wise in your own eyes that you see true as 'false' and false as 'true'. And get your spelling right! ‘Your’ is ‘You’re’. I don’t bother arguing with fools who listen to Satan! I listen to Jehovah. Why should I listen to you? Get lost!